Share The Out-of-Door Academy students raise money to donate blankets to shelters in Sarasota as part of the Blankets of Hope project.
Eleven freshmen from The Out-of-Door Academy sat in the library Feb. 5 with the lights off and their eyes closed.
They were told to imagine themselves in a big city sitting on a sidewalk, feeling the pangs of hunger from not eating for two days.
They were told to imagine someone noticing them, and rather than providing a helping hand, the person tells them to get a job.
Students imagined themselves as dirty, disgusted and defeated as they continued to try to hold a job but kept getting fired because they didn’t have clean clothes and a place to call home every night.